Category: art

5×8″ acrylic on sketchbook page

Oh my. Some days I just don’t have time to fix all that needs fixing. The addition of the white stripes in the purple help, but I just don’t feel this is quite done. But on the blog page it must go. On the plus side, I feel a lot better about this than I did earlier today!

5×8″ acrylic, collage on sketchbook page

This began with a cool magazine image that I collaged onto the sketchbook page. I used a fine marker to extend the spiral out onto the page (although those marks are mostly obscured now), then went over that with three different colors of acrylic paint: transparent raw sienna, acra blue violet, and little splashes of cadmium deep red hue. I really like these three colors together, so they may have a reunion someday soon.

wooden balls, each 1.5″ diameter; acrylic paint

I bought a couple of bags of wooden balls at the Habitat for Humanity ReStore a few years ago. I painted some of them, and some are still only gessoed (and some are still raw wood). I’m not sure yet what I’m going to do with them, but I took three of the previously painted one-color balls and added some flourishes with three more colors. I like how they turned out, although I’m still not sure where they’ll end up. More pondering needed. For now, they’re my daily for today.

5×8″ acrylic, collage

This sketchbook page has scraped and manipulated acrylic paint (and some blockprinting with acrylic), and some postcard strips collaged over all of that.

10×8″ acrylic

This is an enhanced scraped painting. I took an old scraped painting that was in stand-by, then scraped some blues coming down from the top, and some strips of vibrant color coming up from the bottom. Some of the original painting shows through. To me, it just looked like a big city lit up at nighttime when I pulled the last scrape. What do you see?

9×11″ acrylic

This is a repurposed peach from long ago. It was a practice peach for a poem-painting, and I also had tried out different colored pens on top of the paint for writing the poem. For this daily, I painted over the penned words, cleaned up the edges, and added the background color (and barely visible painted lines, the final touch).

The original had an unpainted (whitish) background, and the painted peach edges were messy and sketchy. I actually liked it that way, in a way. I didn’t intend to clean up the edges quite so much, but once I added the blue-purple color in the background, the edges didn’t seem to work as well. I don’t love this yet, but sometimes that’s how it happens with the daily janes.

10×7.5″ acrylic on matboard

This began with a scrape of a variety of colors. After drying, I scraped a transparent acra blue violet over it, then cutting in lines with a soft scraping tool while the paint was still wet. I don’t think it needs the cut-in lines now, but thought it was a good idea at the time.

Even though acra blue violet is transparent, it is also dark and can cover up in the right thickness. I like how the colors pop through here and there, and those places where there wasn’t quite enough paint to cover over.

5×8″ acrylic

I scraped three colors of green on this sketchbook page, then took a soft scraping tool and dug into the wet paint to reveal the greens under the other opaque green layers. After it dried, I went in with a brush applying a transparent mix of zinc white and indanthrene blue around the edges and in the white spaces all over.

13.5×6.5″ acrylic

This is a scraped acrylic painting on a long, narrowish piece of matboard that has a “failed” painting on the back. I was planning to try some other techniques and paint after I completed the initial scrape, but I liked how this turned out without doing more so I left it as is!